This presentation is part of the training pathway for Macquarie University staff thinking about applying an Associate Fellowship in the Higher Degree Research Supervision Fellowship program

1. HDR Supervision Fellowship Program – Associate Fellowship Training Pathway
HDR55 Build Evidence of Good Practice
Dr Merilyn Childs
Associate Professor (Honorary)
Office of HDR Training and Partnerships
Macquarie University
Merilyn.Childs@mq.edu.au
13th March 2019

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This self-directed presentation assumes that you have
an understanding of
• The Higher Degree Research Supervision Framework
• The MQ Promotions context (academic staff)
• The MQ Progressions process (professional staff)
• The Account of Professional Practice’ – the template you use
to apply for an HDRS Associate Fellowship
If you are an academic you must have completed
HDR30 Orientation to HDR Supervision before completing
HDR55.
Assumed Knowledge

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This self-directed presentation outlines strategies you
can use to develop evidence to support your
claim for an HDR Associate Fellowship.
The following are covered in the workshop:
• Big picture: it takes a village to develop a great HDR candidate journey
• Thinking about ‘evidence’
• Dimensions of the HDR Supervision Framework
• Thinking about ‘evidence’ (examples)
• What constitutes evidence
The following are provided for your further consideration:
• Weaving evidence into an Account of Professional Practice (APP)
• Suggestions for the structure of your Account of Professional Practice (APP)
• Good luck and further help
About this presentation

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But…it takes a village to
develop a great HDR candidate
lifecycle
A good supervisor-candidate
relationship is important….

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6. Dimensions of the HDR Supervision Framework
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Thinking about ‘evidence’: an example framed by
the MQ HDR Supervision Framework Dimension 1
“Engagement and Influence’

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Thinking about ‘evidence’: an example framed by
the MQ HDR Supervision Framework Dimension 1
“Engagement and Influence’
Possible evidence:
• Workshops for candidate’s about how to develop their
CV and portfolio
• A ‘before and after’ snapshot of your candidate’s CV
and portfolio
• Emails where you support the growth of a candidate’s
employability skills
• Guidelines for candidates to develop CV and portfolio
handed out at commencement
• Maps of candidate’s networks over time
• A handbook for candidates re the internship
experiences

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Thinking about ‘evidence’: an example framed by
the MQ HDR Supervision Framework Dimension 1
“Engagement and Influence’
Possible evidence:
• Workshops on how to diversify career destinations
and build employability skills
• Synchronous, blended and asynchronous workshops
on digital literacies
• Evidence of mentoring
• Career surveys on existing employability skills at
commencement and graduation
• Workshops for supervisors to expand their thinking
about candidates’ career destinations
• Workshops for supervisors to expand their thinking
about the role of internships within candidature
management
• Peer review of your strategy to build a candidate’s
employability skills

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Group Task
What constitutes ‘evidence’
What? What constitutes evidence?
Workshops for candidate’s
about how to develop their CV
and portfolio
If you are the organizer, include the consultation process you went through to
develop and organize the workshops, then a copy if the workshop schedule, and
any feedback and evaluation you did
If you are the participant, given explicit details about the workshop, and write an
evaluation about how it influenced your thinking
A ‘before and after’ snapshot
of your candidate’s CV and
portfolio
To do this activity you will discuss why you are doing this with the candidate
(supervisor) or a group of candidates (professional support). Include summary of
discussion, emails etc. Also include a copy/copies of the ‘before and after’ with
the name/s of the candidate/s removed.
Guidelines for candidates to
develop CV and portfolio
handed out at commencement
Indicate your role in the development of the guidelines, copies of documents,
emails, ppt presentations etc that illustrate the process of consultation and draft
development. A copy of the guidelines. A copy of any feedback or evaluation of
the guidelines.
With your peers, develop a
scenario
With your peers, what constitutes evidence?

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Group Task
What constitutes ‘evidence’ – peer review
What? (Peer review) What constitutes evidence?
You are developing an iLearn site
to help HDR candidates develop
their CV and portfolio. You ask an
employability specialist and an
educational designer to review
what you have developed
• Rationale for the Ilearn site
• Screen shots from the iLearn site
• An evaluation written by your two peers (employability specialist and
educational designer)
• Screen shots of how you improved the ilearn site
• Feedback from candidates who use the site
• Example/s of improving CVs (obscuring candidate’s name/s)
With your peers, develop a
scenario
With your peers, what constitutes evidence?
Often staff think they can’t use peer review in the more intimate context of 1:1 HDR
Supervision. Here are ways you CAN do it.

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Group Task
Choose one Dimension with your peers. What kinds of
evidence might be useful to demonstrate good practices and
impact for that Dimension?

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Questions!
End of workshop
See remaining slides to help you think about the
Account of Professional Practice (APP) after the workshop.

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Weaving evidence into an Account of Professional
Practice (APP)
Reminder:
1. You are required to submit an Account of Professional Practice (APP)
to apply for an HDRS Associate Fellowship.
2. Your APP is about 1,200 words long
3. Attachments are not included in the work count
4. You need to choose two of the four Dimensions to frame work APP

15. Suggestions for the structure of your Account of
Professional Practice (APP)
1. Contents and Attachments
2. Introductory Statement – provide a narrative that lets the Assessors know about you!
• Introduce yourself, your role and your involvement with HDR Supervision
• An outline to your APP - What Dimensions are you responding to? Why did you chose them?
• Which elements were particularly relevant and why?
• What innovative practices did you put in place?
3. Reflective Statement
• What do you think is good practice in your area of HDR Supervision?
• Write a reflective statement that ties together what you did (innovation) with how you think this
• Improved HDR Supervision (impact)
• As you write the reflective statement, weave in anything you read, or evidence you collected.
4. Conclusion
• Finish your Reflective Statement proposing that you be awarded an Associate Fellowship.
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For support and advice, contact
the Convenor of the HDR Supervision
Fellowship Program
hdr.supervision@mq.edu.au
Good luck with your reflective,
evidence-based argument for an
Associate Fellowship!